On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Dmitry V'yal <akamaus at gmail.com> wrote:
> to get them out of font? As far as I know, freetype library is capable of
> extracting outlines, but is there any haskell binding for it which supports
> this functionality?
>> Here [1] one such lib was mentioned, but it wasn't availible online
> that time. Have situation changed today?
Hello, I am Bit from the thread that you referenced. I have not yet
uploaded the bindings to FreeType that I mentioned. I'll try to upload
a darcs repository of what I have.
The bindings are incomplete, but there is full support for loading
fonts and extracting the outlines. What is missing is FreeType's
functions for rendering glyphs to bitmaps.
I even made a high level wrapper function to make extraction of glyph
outlines easier:
outlineDecompose2 :: FT.Outline -> IO OutlineDecomposition
data OutlineContourStep
= OutlineContourLineTo FT.Vector
| OutlineContourConicTo FT.Vector FT.Vector
| OutlineContourCubicTo FT.Vector FT.Vector FT.Vector
deriving (Eq, Show)
data OutlineContour = OutlineContour FT.Vector [OutlineContourStep]
deriving (Eq, Show)
data OutlineDecomposition = OutlineDecomposition [OutlineContour]
deriving (Eq, Show)
I also made an example that renders the outlines using OpenGL to
verify that everything works.
I will apply for an account on code.haskell.org and upload the current
state of the bindings into a darcs repository there.
P.S. Anyone know how to apply to get an account on code.haskell.org?